# eliukblau/pixterm

Draw images in your ANSI terminal with true color

Repository: https://github.com/eliukblau/pixterm
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pixterm
Language: Go
License: MPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: ansi, terminal, image, true, color, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, webp, go, golang, tool, cli
Last push: 2026-08-01T21:45:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 85/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 63, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3500, "days_push": 32, "days_rel": 32, "gap_med": 685, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1015, forks 56 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:14.189263+00:00)

## What it is
PIXterm is a Go CLI tool that renders images directly in ANSI terminals using true color escape codes and unicode half-block characters. It supports JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, and WebP formats, with optional dithering modes and transparency matte colors.

## Use cases
- display an image in my terminal
- preview images over ssh without a gui
- render a png as ascii art in the shell
- show image thumbnails in a terminal
- convert an image to ansi true color output
- view a gif in the command line

## When to choose
- you work in a terminal-only or ssh environment and need quick image previews
- your terminal supports true color and a monospaced font with block characters
- you want a fast, dependency-free single binary for terminal image rendering

## When to avoid
- your terminal lacks true color support
- you need high-fidelity image viewing with zoom or pan
- you use a proportional font or a font missing the half-block unicode character

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, cli, terminal-ui
- domain: developer-tools, image-processing
- platform: cli, cross-platform, go
- tags: ansi-true-color, terminal-graphics, dithering, unicode-blocks, command-line

## Member repositories
- eliukblau/pixterm (main) score 85

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.189263+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:11:26.054588+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/eliukblau/pixterm (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.189263+00:00, sha 64d18c7b3d2a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.